Building, painting and finishing scale aircraft models.
Hey everyone. I’ve just recently joined this group and I’m looking forward to learning from you and sharing ideas.
I recently got back into a childhood hobby of making model aircraft, and hopefully my adult approach is much better [...]
This was a really fun build. managed to do the front half a little different from what was instructed and it turned out just fine. Wish there was the YF-23A beside it! Cheers.
Greetings. I have decided this year to build and share most of my models online on YouTube. This is the first time being here and now I know that after each build I can post here. This should be so much fun! took around 3 hours to build [...]
The kit from Special Hobby is again of decent quality, only the cockpit is made in a very simplified scheme. Also added details of the cockpit, part of the pipe in the opening of the radiator and a few other small things. Struts need to be [...]
MiG-23 is a Soviet third generation jet fighter. It was one of the first Soviet fighters equipped with ‘beyond visual range’ missiles (R-23 and R-24) and its RP-23 radar was capable of ‘look down-shoot down’ mode. Production [...]
I created a group build for this kit too.
The Kit
According to Scalemates, this kit began life in 1949 under the Hawk label. The last boxing was in 1993 and I suspect, being that I bought the kit still in the wrapping and the parts were [...]
I built this back in 2018, but just came across it during some tidying up and thought it might be worth sharing. It's the venerable AMT/Ertl P-40K kit, released in 1996, the second of their own moldings for a semi-modular series of the [...]
